Missionaries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 76 Collections and/or Records:
Letters of John M. Leggate (c.1904-1985)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 12
Scope and Contents
The collection is a transcription of letters written by Leggate from Manchuria between 1946 and 1949. The letters are mainly to his wife in Scotland but some are to his children and possibly to others. The transcriptions do not include the names of the recipients of the letters and are extracts from the letters only, all personal references having been removed. Leggate describes re-establishing the missionary work in Manchuria, in particular his medical work and the medical college at Moukden,...
Dates:
1946-1949
Letters of Lawrence and Caroline Hogg
Fonds
Identifier: GD7
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of twenty-six microfiche copies of letters. The first three (1910-1920) are letters written by Lawrence Hogg in Scotland before he went to India and the last two (1921-1923) are letters of Caroline M. Dixon before she married. The remaining letters record the Hoggs' many encounters with missionaries and Indian Church leaders, Hogg's views on independence, the contacts the Hoggs had with relatives in India and Upper Egypt, and offer a portrait of Christian work in...
Dates:
1910-1964
M14 Miller, Sarah Wilson Pairman, 1937
File — Box SW 36
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/8/1/593
Scope and Contents
Dip. Social Study 1930. File contains correspondence only, relating to her missionary work in Africa.
Dates:
1937
M15 Monkley, Margaret, 1938-1946
File — Box SW 36
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/8/1/594
Scope and Contents
Dip. Social Study 1938. File contains correspondence only and includes accounts of her missionary work in the Labrador region of Canada with Dr Charles Curtis of the Grenfell Mission.
Dates:
1938-1946
Memoir by Barbara Pedersen of her time in Manchuria, China, 1912-1969
Fonds — Box CSWC Small Collections Box 3
Identifier: CSWC 94
Oldham Papers
Fonds
Identifier: GD2
Scope and Contents
The collection contains: Oldham's correspondence (1892-1965) including references to Oldham's conversion and his work in India with the YMCA, to his work to promote co-operation between missions and denominations such as through the 1910 World Missionary Conference, the 1937 Oxford conference and the World Council of Churches, to German missionaries in World War 1 and Germany in the 1930s, to Indian and African (particularly educational and East African) issues, to the establishment of the...
Dates:
1892-1990
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
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Oldham Papers
Papers of Alan Cox (b. 1926)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 29
Scope and Contents
Material includes correspondence about the collection (1993); prayer letters of Alan and Doris Roberts founders of the Home (1955-1960) and of Nona Bell, a sister at the Home (1961-1964); letters and accounts relating to money raised by Cox (1958-1960); notes on the history of the home by Alfred (Fred) Hasted (Welfare Officer), Bella Teite and Enid Johnson (various dates); letters to Hasted from Nigeria referring to the Home (1970-1982); and articles and reports relating to Uzuakoli, the Home...
Dates:
1955-1993
Papers of Annie Gray Buchan (1895-1988)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 16
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of: notes and reminiscences written by Buchan after her return from China with some original items and correspondence (1925-1984); talks and addresses concerning China mainly given in the UK by Buchan (1928, 1946-1986); pamphlets and printed items about China including ones on and by Buchan (1941-1989); papers on Eric Liddell and personal items belonging to Buchan (1921-1987); and photographs and pictures of Buchan and China (1920s-1950).
Dates:
1921-1989
Papers of Arthur Ruffell Barlow
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-208
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of material about the Church of Scotland mission in Kenya, about Kikuyu language and culture, and about the interests and concerns of Africans and their relation to the government. In particular it includes: Barlow's comments on and additions to theKikuyu-English Dictionaryby L.J. Beecher and G.S.B. Beecher (including volumes of the 1935 dictionary with Barlow's handwritten amendments) with correspondence (1956-1962) about the publication of a revised version; Barlow's...
Dates:
1903-1965
Papers of Betty D. Gibson (1889-1973)
Fonds
Identifier: GD5
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of letters (1928-1938) from Gibson to her family written while on missionary business in Europe, Palestine, Africa, and India; notes made by Gibson on African missions visited, on their activities, histories and records, and on meetings about missions (1933-1944) and on continental missions (ca. 1937-1948 including financial status); circulars and printed reports by the International Missionary Council and the Conference of Missionary Societies, and on Nyasaland and...
Dates:
1907-1969